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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. – Soren Kierkegaard

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I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. – Soren Kierkegaard

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great
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Depression
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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. – Jane Smiley

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Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time. – Joshua Foer

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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately youll find what you need. It is the experience of living. – Marion Cotillard

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The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. – Heywood Broun

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